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One of the things that make YouTube a great video sharing community is that
any user can display any YouTube video on his own web page or blog. You
don’t even have to host the video; just embed a pointer to the video in
your page’s HTML, and YouTube automatically feeds the video to anyone
visiting your page.

How do you do this? It’s as easy as cutting and pasting a line or two
of HTML. Read on to learn more.

Linking to a YouTube Video

Before we get to embedded videos, let’s look at an even easier way. You
can reference a YouTube video from your web page or blog—by linking to it.
Every YouTube video has its own unique URL; you can copy and paste this URL into
email messages, blog postings, or your own web page.

You can find a video’s link URL by opening the video viewing page on
YouTube and then clicking the More Info link in the description box underneath
the video. The URL, not surprisingly, is the bit of code in the URL box.

To insert a YouTube video link into an email message or blog post, simply
copy the URL from the video page and paste it into the body of your message or
post. Anyone reading your message or post can click the link and be taken to the
video viewing page on the YouTube site.

To insert the link into a web page, copy it from the video page and then
insert it into your page’s underlying HTML code, surrounded by the
appropriate link tag. The resulting code should look something like this: